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I decided to share this Mexican food inspired taco stuffed tomatoes recipe because the recipe for my pesto quinoa stuffed tomatoes is the #1 most popular recipe on my blog. It has been for the last year, it’s been shared over 228K times! Holy cow!

This leads me to believe that even though salsa quinoa stuffed peppers are the bomb.com, maybe people want to switch up the vegetables that they’re stuffing.

Hello, gorgeous perfectly-ripe, juicy, red, tomatoes.

Why do bell peppers been getting all the love? Tomatoes are just as delicious stuffed as they are raw. In this stuffed tomatoes recipe, the tomatoes are roasted just until they start to blister but are still strong enough to hold all the filling inside. So delicious and so pretty to serve for a special dinner.

Stuffed Tomato Recipe + a Bonus Recipe!

I call this dish –> taco stuffed tomatoes because:

The stuffed tomatoes filling is taco flavored, obvi.

The leftover filling is perfect to use for tacos the next night!

Like my mom always said, “cook once and eat twice!”

After you make the delicious filling for the stuffed tomato recipe, divide it in half and put one-half away for tacos for dinner the next night. All you need to do the next night is prep shredded lettuce, tomatoes, and avocado slices, and you have a super simple dinner on the table…FAST!

I used to wrap my block of tofu in a dish towel and then put a heavy cast iron pot on top of it to press the juice out. The pot would slide off, the juice would drip everywhere, it was a hot mess.

I recently got a tofu press to squeeze the juice out and it’s amazing!

It works so much more efficiently than my previous process and I can’t believe I waited this long to get one. I highly recommend that you try using a press to prepare your tofu. If you don’t get all the juice out, you’ll end up with soggy tofu. Bleh!

What Should You serve with the Stuffed Tomatoes?

You’ll never want to eat plain quinoa again after you try this flavored version. I also make a basil pesto quinoa that we love served with tomato soup but the cilantro lime version is our #1 favorite. We especially love it with this stuffed tomato recipe.

It’s just so flavorful with a whole bunch of fresh cilantro, lime juice, garlic cloves and a tiny bit of olive oil. The flavor is so bright and the color jumps right off the plate. I love serving a dinner plate that is overflowing with bright colors. You can just tell by looking at the dinner plate that it’s all so good for your body!